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Remembering those lost.....

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#1 · (Edited)
As part of my New Year's Day tradition, we remember those lost in 2011.

First, the stats...


Total Line of Duty Deaths: 163
Aircraft accident: 1
Animal related: 1
Assault: 5
Automobile accident: 35
Drowned: 4
Duty related illness: 7
Explosion: 1
Gunfire: 66
Gunfire (Accidental): 4
Heart attack: 10
Heat exhaustion: 1
Motorcycle accident: 4
Stabbed: 2
Struck by vehicle: 4
Training accident: 1
Vehicle pursuit: 4
Vehicular assault: 12
Weather/Natural disaster: 1


By Month
January: 18
February: 14
March: 20
April: 11
May: 14
June: 13
July: 15
August: 16
September: 10
October: 7
November: 6
December: 19


By State
Alabama: 3
Arizona: 2
Arkansas: 1
California: 10
Colorado: 1
Delaware: 1
Florida: 13
Georgia: 10
Hawaii: 1
Illinois: 2
Indiana: 2
Iowa: 2
Kansas: 1
Louisiana: 3
Maine: 1
Maryland: 2
Massachusetts: 1
Michigan: 5
Minnesota: 1
Mississippi: 1
Missouri: 6
Montana: 1
New Jersey: 5
New York: 11
North Carolina: 7
North Dakota: 2
Ohio: 6
Oklahoma: 2
Oregon: 3
Pennsylvania: 4
Puerto Rico: 4
South Carolina: 3
South Dakota: 3
Tennessee: 6
Texas: 13
Tribal Police: 2
U.S. Government: 13
Virginia: 5
Washington: 2
Wisconsin: 1
Wyoming: 1


By Gender
Male: 152
Female: 11


Average age: 40
Average tour of duty: 12 years, 8 months
 
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#27 ·
Losses forgotten by an ungrateful public within a weeks time.

Felt by family, friends and co-workers forever...........................

Stay safe, everyone; do whatever it takes to get you home at the end of your tour to your family.
 
#28 ·
COPS ON THE WALL

What a haunting thing as cops we do
When that nightmare we have comes true
Somewhere on a playground that they choose
When time stands still as bullets zoom
Who will live, who will die; we both will lose

These Dreams Never go away
Cause another one of us dies each day
Why do these people want to engage
What is it that fuels their rage
Don’t they know it makes me cry
To see them or us without reason die

I see a new name on the wall each week
This job isn’t for the timid or weak
The wall fills up as the year goes by
Each new name makes hundreds cry
New Year comes and another one starts
So many Mothers with broken hearts


The wives and children they don’t understand
Why someone killed Daddy when he made his stand
There’s a thin blue line between good and bad
When the goods guys win we all are glad
Then one of us falls on a call gone bad
We know he gave it all he had
Here’s what makes it all so sad
Another Child without a Dad



PROSOUTH
#430 CCSD
 
#30 ·
Losses forgotten by an ungrateful public within a weeks time.

Felt by family, friends and co-workers forever...........................

Stay safe, everyone; do whatever it takes to get you home at the end of your tour to your family.
+1

Well spoken.
 
#31 ·
After this year, for the first time in my life I have considered leaving law enforcement. I prolly wont, cant bring myself to leave it, but sometimes I want to.
Because of the fallen, I stay to continue the fight. If I don't who will?

Fight the bad in their honor. Fight the evil in their names. Win with the memory of their deaths to keep the peace.
 
#34 ·
RIP to all and our own.
 
#35 · (Edited)
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. - Abraham Lincoln
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